INVESTIGATION: The official search failed to find the body of the plane (Pic: GETTY)

“The passengers ended up in the Southern Indian Ocean, and are at the bottom of the sea inside the sunken and intact fuselage”

Larry Vance

Vance condemned the original investigation by Malaysian authorities, and said he set out to write his book to publish "a professional account, but in plain understandable language, of the physical evidence that me and my team saw — evidence that was obviously not discovered or understood by the official investigation".

But he spoke with regret about how authorities in Kuala Lumpur hadn't gone back to the Southern Indian Ocean to follow his advice.

He went on: "I honestly believed that once the official investigation team saw the physical evidence that we discovered, and how we interpreted it accurately, they would change their minds about what they thought happened to MH370.